On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 01:05:07PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > This article [0] had some extensive complaints about Debian, one of > which is that the installer has too many screens (apparently 20 in > their case). > > Setting a default mirror without user intervention would nicely save 3 > of those steps, and httpredir.debian.org is in many ways the ideal > mirror selection anyway. I have seen issues with this. It might be good for the general case of apt where you see what the failure is and can retry if needed. But in the US it caused me some aborted installations because there was some mirror in the rotation that was broken. debian-installer - I guess in this case debootstrap - does not retry a broken file. (apt also doesn't do that but it's harder to figure out in d-i what's going on.) Kind regards Philipp Kern
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